I just got through speaking via email with Mark Tapscott. He has requested I post a link to his most recent blog entry here at FreeRepublic. It is an Open Letter to OU President Boren...
DEAR PRESIDENT BOREN: What Did You Know About Joel Henry Hinrichs and When Did You Know It?
http://tapscottscopydesk.blogspot.com/2005/10/dear-president-boren-what-did-you-know.html
A hearty Freeper THANK YOU! to Mark for keeping the pressure on for the facts to be reported!
Thank you so much for that link. It's good to see it covered at least a little by MSNBC.
Hinrichs' father appears to be a very intelligent, well-spoken man. I do feel for him in all of this... He made an interesting remark about taking note a year ago of the changes in his son.
The young lady from the Muslim Student's association was also pretty well spoken. She kept saying she was confused about everything - she repeated this about 20 times! She definitely knows how to reinforce an idea in the minds of the viewers - repetition. Does she know this politician's tool of the trade? Who knows...
She is right that the media isn't perhaps doing as good a job as it should reporting this but she really missed the mark, IMHO as far as saying they are reporting completely on speculations. I personally don't think off the record testimony from LEOs is "speculation". I also don't think that eyewitness accounts and interviews are speculation either.
She basically blamed the media for painting things a certain way, but she fails to acknowledge why everyone would be so "nervous at first" as Rita Cosby puts it. The young woman says we're all nervous and there are a lot of unanswered questions. Well, that goes without saying.
Freeper Flattorney has provided a link to an MSNBC video report at post #63. THANK YOU FLATTORNEY!
Rita Cosby interviewed Joel Hinrichs' father as well as the female leader of the Muslim Student's Association.
(My comments can be read at #65.)